Every athlete learns by theft and mimicry.

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

It's impossible to explain to a Yankee what 'tacky' is. They simply have no word for it up north, but my God, do they ever need one.

I was born and raised on a Carolina sea island and I carried the sunshine of the low-country, inked in dark gold, on my back and shoulders.

I’ve never had anyone’s approval, so I’ve learned to live without it.

The most powerful words in English are, 'Tell me a story.'

Here is all I ask of a book- give me everything. Everything, and don't leave out a single word.

I stood face to face with the moon and the ocean and the future that spread out with all its bewildering immensity before me.

Good writing ... involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the tight-fitting uniform of language, making them visible and clear.

There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.

The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life.

The devil...the prowde spirite...cannot endure to be mocked.

I'm so

Nightly you retrace your steps again to return to the scene of the crime. It's uncanny how you hover in the air of the wreckage that you left behind.

A living museum must surely see itself as a locus of argument. A breathing art institution is not a lockup but a moveable feast.

It doesn't matter how good the card is if the issuance process is flawed.

Shadows fall on even the brightest hours.

Your passion may be hard to spot, so keep an open mind and keep searching.

Happiest is he who expects no happiness from others.

What I definitely learnt from Michael Jackson is that simple is almost always better. As a songwriter, as an artist period.

Nobody who lived through the '50s thought the '60s could've existed. So there's always hope.